Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

In this line Pryor compresses a bleakly comic view of marriage into a two-part punchline: the emotional labor of intimacy (“feelings”) and the institutional machinery that often follows conflict (“lawyers”). The humor comes from the abrupt shift from private, vulnerable experience to public, adversarial procedure—suggesting that modern marriage is not only a romantic bond but also a legal contract with high stakes. Read in light of Pryor’s broader comedic persona, the joke also functions as social commentary: love is difficult enough, but the systems surrounding it can make failure costly and combative.